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January 26, 2025
Pastor Joe Cameneti Jr.
You are born looking like your parents, but you die looking like your DECISIONS.
Deuteronomy 30:19 “…I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life that you may live!…” New American Standard Bible
Joshua 24:15 …Choose for yourself today whom you will serve … “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” New Living Translation
Proverbs 1:8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. 9 They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck. New International Version
Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinful men entice you, do not give in to them. 11 If they say, “Come along with us; let’s lie in wait for innocent blood, let’s ambush some harmless soul; 12 let’s swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; New International Version
Proverbs 1:13 we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder; 14 cast lots with us; we will all share the loot”— 15 my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths; New International Version
Proverbs 1:16 for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to shed blood. 17 How useless to spread a net where every bird can see it! 18 These men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush only themselves! 19 Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the life of those who get it. New International Version
The WRONG VOICES lead us to the WRONG PLACES
Proverbs 7:21 With persuasive words she led him astray; she seduced him with her smooth talk. 22 All at once he followed her like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer stepping into a noose… New International Version
Proverbs 7:23 …till an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare, little knowing it will cost him his life. 24 Now then, my sons, listen to me; pay attention to what I say. New International Version
1. GET RID OFTHE WRONG VOICES
“Devil" - баволос - (diabolos) - One who repetitiously strikes until successfully penetrating an object to ruin it, affect it, or take it captive; to slander, accuse, or defame; to penetrate by continuous assault; to ensnare with a net.
2 Corinthians 10:5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, … English Standard Version
2. TUNE IN TO THE RIGHT VOICES
It’s not hard to hear God’s voice if we want to.
John 10:27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. New International Version
John 10:5 But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will flee from him because they do not recognize his voice.” Berean Study Bible
Make space for God to speak:
✅ Be Intentional
✅ Give God Your Best
✅ Set the stage for a great conversation
3. WAIT FOR THE WHISPERS
Volume doesn’t always reveal God’s voice.
1 Kings 19:11 …Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. New International Version
Don’t miss the whisper because you’re looking for the thunder.
SOMETIMES GOD SPEAKS IN SUBTITLES